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Sam Kong
Sam Kong

Reputation: 5820

flashvars problem with cache buster

I am playing with a flash media player in rails app.

The problem is that flashvars parameter is very dumb.

Rails makes cache busters for url and it prevents flash from working.

flashvars="file=/my/media.flv?123456&autostart=false&repeat=none"

I had to change it to

flashvars="file=/my/media.flv&autostart=false&repeat=none"

Now I know how to work around but it feels very ad hoc. How do I fix it more elegantly?

Sam

Upvotes: 1

Views: 226

Answers (1)

bemo56
bemo56

Reputation: 15

To start with file=/my/media.flv?123456&autostart=false&repeat=none isn't a valid url, namely ?123456 is wrong. The query string should be in the format {key}={value}, whereas you just have a value.

Change the url to something similar to file=/my/media.flv?id=123456&autostart=false&repeat=none and rails should be able to generate a proper cache busting url.

Upvotes: 1

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